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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: strings to floats/integers
Date: 1998/08/29
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Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> The conversion between strings and float and strings and integers can
> easily be accomplished using Ada.Text_IO.   Note that for 
> 
>          Ada.Text_IO.Integer_IO
>    and   Ada.Text_IO.Float_IO
> 
> there are Get and Put operations defined for conversion between strings
> and the desired numeric type.

Note that for types Integer and Float, there are predefined
instantations of the associated packages in Text_IO, called

     Ada.Integer_Text_IO
and  Ada.Float_Text_IO

These were included in the language specifically for use by students and
other Ada neophytes.